Following approximately 1.5 years of construction, Tufts Dental School recently completed its vertical expansion project, adding 5 floors and approximately 95,000 square feet to the downtown Boston location. The new space expands Tufts’ patient clinics, classrooms, offices, and Continuing Education and research facilities.
November 20, 2009 marked the dedication and grand opening of the redeveloped building, located on the edge of Boston’s Chinatown neighborhood. The development effort, launched in April 2008, was funded mainly through private donations of alumni.
In the face of a difficult commercial real estate market, Tufts Dental School is able to fund and complete a major construction project largely because of its ability to diversify revenue generation across three separate and distinct activities – the school draws donations from alumni, collects tuition from students of its four year DMD program, and generates revenue from its internal clinic staffed by students, which serves more than 20,000 patients each year on a for-fee basis.
Keith Munsell 
